Mental Health

Lack of sleep blunts emotional reactions, especially positive feelings

Scientific American MIND talks to the author of Why We Snap

Psychologist James W. Pennebaker explains why it helps

Couples who have sex at least once a week are happiest, perhaps because we think it’s the norm

Inside the March/April 2016 Scientific American MIND

A neuroscientist explains the rage circuits in your brain

New research suggests the disorder often looks different in females, many of whom are being misdiagnosed and missing out on the support they need

By analyzing the language of tweets and Facebook posts, scientists can increasingly make communitywide health forecasts and even individual diagnoses

By tweaking brain chemistry, a number of common drugs can alter moral decision-making

A new study opens a door to more biologically based categories of major mental illness

Cross-Check columns on efforts to understand and treat depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and other mental disorders

New research provides evidence that partners are more similar in psychiatric status than chance would predict